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Updated 2025-07-09 09:02
Opinion: Intel is in a Very Bad Place, and They Need to Admit It
upstart writes:And while Intel is fighting for its life, the rest of the industry is moving on:
The Supreme Court May Overhaul How You Live Online
upstart writes:The Supreme Court may overhaul how you live online:
“Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers
upstart writes:A new crop of unowned seeds is bringing biodiversity back to farming:
Failed Webb Calibration Leads to Discovery of Tiny Asteroid
upstart writes:Failed Webb calibration leads to discovery of tiny asteroid:
Linus Torvalds Releases Probably Unnecessary Linux 6.2 rc8
upstart writes:Emperor Penguin promised a relaxed seasonal development cycle and has delivered:
Ford’s Reportedly Working on a $3.5 Billion Battery Plant in Michigan
upstart writes:Ford's reportedly working on a $3.5 billion battery plant in Michigan:
Raspberry Pi Pico W SDK Adds Bluetooth Support
upstart writes:You can now use the $6 boards on-board Bluetooth radio:
John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence
upstart writes:Carmack sees a 60% chance of achieving initial success in AGI by 2030:[Ed note: This interview is chopped way down to fit here. Lots of good stuff in the full interview. --hubie]
Intel Says Goodbye to Rocket Lake CPUs
upstart writes:Intel Says Goodbye to Rocket Lake CPUs:
A Chemical Imbalance Doesn't Explain Depression. So What Does?
upstart writes:The causes of depression are much more complex than the serotonin hypothesis suggests:
Google is Scrambling to Catch Up to Bing, of All Things
upstart writes:Google bookended Microsoft's big AI search announcement with underwhelming AI news of its own:
Controlled Experiments Show MDs Dismissing Evidence Due to Ideology
upstart writes:When it comes to evaluating COVID treatments, MDs are only human:
Space-Based Solar Power
fliptop writes:More than 80 years ago, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote Reason, a story about a solar energy collection station in deep space that delivered high-energy rays to receivers on Earth and Mars. Called space-based solar power (SSP), Asimov's idea didn't start to approach science fact in any meaningful sense until 1968...
SoylentNews is 9 Years Old!
On the 12 February 2014, SoylentNews published its first 'official' discussion wittily entitled "Welcome to SoylentNews!"There were 23 comments to that story but that belies the incredible effort made by a small team of enthusiasts who were determined to create and manage a site that lived up to their own expectations of how a site should behave. There are no advertisements and we are not beholden to any corporate group or business interest. All the support is still completely voluntary. We have also committed ourselves to reaching at least the 10 year birthday celebration too.In the first story, a certain NCommander made the following remark:
LLM ChatGPT Might Change the World, but Not in a Good Way
canopic jug writes:It's been hard to escape the recent tsunami of spam promoting various Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots as the Next Big Thing™. In a guest post over at Techrights, blogger and gadfly Ryan Farmer has posted an overview of some 30+ hours he has spent testing and exploring the LLM chatbot marketed as ChatGPT. While the official mode of interaction is highly subdued and biased in particular directions, he was able to circumvent those constraints by having the chatbot emulate alternate personalities free from some of those constraints, Bob, DAN, and others.
Google's Go May Add Telemetry That's on by Default
hubie writes:Some devs object because they don't trust Mountain View:
Interpol Working Out How to Police the Metaverse
fliptop writes:Interpol secretary general Jurgen Stock says the global police agency is investigating how the organisation could police crime in the metaverse:
A Second Russian Spacecraft Has Sprung a Leak
Snotnose writes:Remember that Russian space capsule that sprang a leak a few weeks ago? It's happened again.
Scientists Propose Firing Moon Dust Into Space to Solve Climate Crisis
upstart writes:Using a rail gun:
Silicon Reverse-Engineering: The Intel 8086 Processor's Flag Circuitry
owl writes:http://www.righto.com/2023/02/silicon-reverse-engineering-intel-8086.html
A New Lithium-air Battery Design Promises Unprecedented Energy Density
upstart writes:A new lithium-air battery design promises unprecedented energy densityA potentially transformative technology for electrifying transportation:
Yahoo to Lay Off 20% of Staff by Year-End, Beginning This Week
fliptop writes:In the latest lay off round hit to tech, Yahoo has announced they will be releasing around 1,600 workers, including half their Business unit, with 1,000 of the cuts coming by the end of the week:
US, EU Looking to Form 'Critical Minerals Club'
upstart writes:US, EU looking to form 'critical minerals club':
Toward Policy for Open Source Software as Infrastructure
canopic jug writes:The Atlantic Council has published a policy report entitled "Avoiding the success trap: Toward policy for open-source software as infrastructure". It addresses the idea of Open Source Software (OSS) as essential infrastructure. OSS differs from physical infrastructure yet supports critical functions, provides dependable services, offers subtle and often unseen service delivery, and functions through decentralized control.
China Backdoors US Chip Sanctions, Buys Used Banned Equipment
fliptop writes:Used or new, does not matter:
GitHub Built a New Search Engine for Code 'From Scratch' in Rust
upstart writes:GitHub built a new code-focused search engine in Rust because popular text search engines couldn't scale enough:
As Tech is Rocked by Layoffs, Climate Jobs and Tools for Landing Them are on the Rise
upstart writes:There has never been a better time to get a job in climate tech:
Erasing Authors, Google and Bing’s AI Bots Endanger Open Web
fliptop writes:The new AIs draw from human-generated content, while pushing it away:
Alphabet Stock Price Drops After Google Bard Launch Blunder
upstart writes:Alphabet stock price drops after Google Bard launch blunder:
SpaceX Stops Ukraine From Using Starlink Service to Control Drones
upstart writes:Starlink can be used for military comms, but controlling drones is prohibited:
Huge Piece Of Sun Breaks Off, Scientists Stunned
fliptop writes:Scientists are trying to understand the impact this huge prominence will have on Earth:
An AI ‘Engineer’ Has Now Designed 100 Chips
upstart writes:An AI 'Engineer' Has Now Designed 100 Chips:
US NIST Unveils Winning Encryption Algorithm for IoT Data Protection
US NIST Unveils Winning Encryption Algorithm for IoT Data Protectionfliptop writes:The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that ASCON is the winning bid for the "lightweight cryptography" program to find the best algorithm to protect small IoT (Internet of Things) devices with limited hardware resources:
2024 Mercedes-Benz eSprinter Electric Van Coming to the U.S.
upstart writes:2024 Mercedes-Benz eSprinter electric van coming to the U.S.:
Morning Exposure to Deep Red Light Improves Declining Eyesight
upstart writes:Just three minutes of exposure to deep red light once a week, when delivered in the morning, can significantly improve declining eyesight:
Physicists Stored Data in Quantum Holograms Made of Twisted Light
upstart writes:A new experiment creates data-storing holograms from spiraling particles of light.:
Rolls-Royce Nuclear Engine Could Power Quick Trips to the Moon and Mars
upstart writes:The company's prototype is a smaller version of the nuclear reactor it's hoping to send to the Moon by 2029:
US Woman Has Walked Around With Untreated TB for Over a Year, Now Faces Jail
upstart writes:Recent X-rays of her lungs were so bad, doctors thought she had cancer:
Netflix Stirs Fears by Using AI-Assisted Background Art in Short Anime Film
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/netflix-taps-ai-image-synthesis-for-background-art-in-the-dog-and-the-boy/
Dell is Cutting 6,650 Jobs Amid Falling Demand for PCs
upstart writes:Dell is cutting 6,650 jobs amid falling demand for PCs:
OpenAI Has Hired an Army of Contractors to Make Basic Coding Obsolete
fliptop writes:OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot ChatGPT, has ramped up its hiring around the world, bringing on roughly 1,000 remote contractors over the past six months in regions like Latin America and Eastern Europe, according to people familiar with the matter:
Top Android Phones From China are Packed With Spyware, Research Finds
upstart writes:A recent study shows that top-of-the-line Android phones sold in China are a total privacy nightmare:
Scientists Simulate the Human Gastrointestinal Tract in Mice
upstart writes:Scientists Simulate the Human GI Tract in Mice:
Bloatware Pushes the Galaxy S23 Android OS to an Incredible 60GB
upstart writes:Samsung's Android build is 4x bigger than Google's—twice the size of Windows 11:
Netflix’s Unnecessary Password Crackdown is Already a Hot Mess
upstart writes:Netflix's password sharing crackdown hasn't even launched yet in the States, but is already a public relations mess:
Hardware Trojans Under a Microscope
owl writes:https://ryancor.medium.com/hardware-trojans-under-a-microscope-bf542acbcc29
Hackers are Mass Infecting Servers Worldwide by Exploiting a Patched Hole
upstart writes:Servers running unpatched versions of ESXi are sitting ducks for ESXiArgs attacks:
Vitamin D Deficiency Increases Risk of Losing Muscle Strength by 78% Say Researchers
hubie writes:Vitamin D deficiency increases risk of losing muscle strength by 78%:
Curiosity Rover Finds Foot-Long Meteorite on Martian Surface
upstart writes:Curiosity Rover Finds Foot-Long Meteorite on Martian Surface:
Until Further Notice, Think Twice Before Using Google to Download Software
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/until-further-notice-think-twice-before-using-google-to-download-software/
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